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e. M. RANKIN. REGISTER AND PILE FOR OFFICE USE.

Patented July 8, 1890.

UNrrn c rares ROBERT M. `RANKIN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE AUGUST GAST BANK NOTE AND LITI-IOGRAPI-IING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

REGISTER AND FILE FOR OFFICE USE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,621, dated July 8, 1890.

Application filed August 5. 1.389. Renewed May l2, 1890. Serial No. 351,398. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT M. RANKIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented an Improved Office Register and File, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being also had to the accompanying drawing, in which the iigure is a perspective view of my invention.

1o The object of the invent-ion is to provide within a small compass and in a form more readily accessible and convenient than an ordinary book-diary a register or record of engagements or transactions for any particular' r day during any current month, as well as for any other month, past or fut-ure, during a year or longer period. It is also designed for use by bankers, collectors, and others having charge of the collection of notes, bills,

zo dac., as a convenient combined file for the keeping of such papers and a register of the times appointed for their payment.

The invention consists of a box or case A, preferably rectangular in outline. This case 2 5 is divided longitudinally by a horizontal partition extending from front to rear into two sections. (Marked l and 2 in the drawing.) Each of these sections is subdivided into numerous small compartments by vertical par- 3o titions 3 4, extending the full depth of the case and the full height of the sections. One of these sections 2 in the drawing is, by means of these vertical partitions, thus divided into thirty-one compartments, numbered, successively, from l to 3l, inclusive.

In the remaining Section are twelve compartments, equal in size, but preferably somewhat wider than those in the other section, and additional compartments may be added,

4o according to individual desire, within the compass of the case, for the display of a calendar or as a repository for pencils, memorandum blocks or slate, dce., as shown at 5 6. Y Into each one of the compartments in the lower case, which is intended to receive appointments for any current month, are inserted envelopes 7 of suitable size, such envelopes bearing numbers corresponding to the number of the subdivision within which 5o they are placed. Small slates of silicate or other substance may also be placed in these envelopes for making memoranda.

The upper section is intended for a monthl register'. Into cach of the twelve compartments of thisl section are inserted other envelopes S, preferably of the kind known among Stationers as liling or document f envelopes, each bearing upon its exposed end, when placed in position in the case, the designation of a particular month. 6o

Memoranda of current engagements for any month are distributed in the appropriate envelopes in the lower series, or papers maturing on any particular day are placed in the proper envelope, numbered to correspond with that day. Thus there is collected in appropriate envelopes a memorandum of all engagements for each day during the month. Engagements for future months are collected in like manner in appropriate envelopes, in- 7o serted in the monthly register. At the end of each month all the envelopes in the lower series will have been emptied as business is transacted, and the engagements for the succeeding month, which have been meanwhile aecumulating in the appropriately designated envelopes in the monthly register, are thence distributed according to their days into the envelopes in the daily series. The register and file thus affords room for a whole years 8o business and collects memoranda of current and future engagements, and may also be used as a record of past transactions.

I claim as my invention- A register and ile for ofiice use, consisting of a case divided longitudinally into sections of nearly equal size, one of these sections being subdivided by means of Vertical partitions into thirty-one compartments of equal size, and designated by numbers, according to 9o the days of the month, and the other being divided by means of like vertical partitions into twelve compartments, and in combination therewith, the envelopes .bearing the properdesignations of months and days, all as shown and described.

R. M. RANKIN. lVitnesses:

FRANK E. RICHEY, JOHN H. FISSE. 

